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Read Me a Story, Ink

Family stories perfect for classroom, bedtime, or anytime. Based on my 26 year hobby of reading in public elementary schools, the stories offered here are some of my favorite, kid-tested read-alouds. All stories appear with the permission of the author.

fiction stories for kids

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10:46

"Four Gallant Sisters" by Eric A. Kimmel

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/10/21

When their mother dies, four sisters disguise themselves as men and find apprenticeships with a tailor, a hunter, a thief and a stargazer. At the end of their apprenticeships, each is given a magic tool. Both the skills and the magic are critical when they are enlisted to save the young king’s betrothed and her four brothers from a loathsome dragon.

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23:01

"The Spell Singer: A Tale of Dyslexia, Witches and...

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/09/16

Katherine, a young witch, has dyslexia and can’t ever get spells right. But when her friend the garden wizard suggests that she try singing the spells, Katherine succeeds where her classmates failed in charming the Dragon and winning the Dragon’s fire to give the village luck.

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08:20

"Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark" by Gary Blackwood

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/08/26

Mama, Papa and Granny all have peculiar ways of knowing that a big rain is coming – none of them very scientific. But that doesn’t stop Papa from building a raft the size of an ark for the great flood of 1908.

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23:08

"My Grandma Can Fly" by Chris Pease.

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/07/29

When Sarah’s grandma was fourteen and living in England, she fell out of the hayloft but never hit the ground. That was the day she discovered she could fly with the help of a little magic leftover from times pasts.

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09:47

"Mr. Runkle's Pumpkin: A Summer Tale" by Betse Brydon

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/07/03

Mr. Runkle grows only orderly vegetables while his neighbor, Miss Appleby’s garden is a tangle of bright flowers with the exception of one gigantic, prize winning pumpkin.

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20:40

"Nick of Time: a Dog-Ghost's Tale" by Jackie Vivelo

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/06/10

Jared loved artifact hunting at his grand parents farm. But each summer a local pack of wild dogs was getting bolder. They had already killed Nick, grandpa's courageous hound. When Jared came face to face with the pack, only one thing could save him.

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24:26

"Beauty and the Beast" retold by Adele Geras

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/05/07

A traditional fairytale for all ages beautifully retold by award-winning British author, Adele Geras.

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19:04

"The Woodcutter's Secret" by Simon Higgins

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/04/15

Two of the King’s guards pay a young man to show them the way to Aliforde the Woodcutter’s hut. But when they arrive the humble woodcutter bests them both by sword revealing his true identity as the King’s Personal Champion, self-exiled after an accidental killing of a rival. But the King has a new son, and he needs his trusted champion back to teach the young prince the way of the Knight.

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10:46

"The Leprechaun's Story" by Richard Kennedy

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/03/14

According to legend, if you see a leprechaun and don’t take your eyes off him, he must take you to his pot of gold, which is just what a traveling tradesman does. However, in the end, he is outwitted by the leprechaun’s sad but clever story.

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15:13

"The Skunk and the Bear: A Love Story" by Terry Jones

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/02/11

A skunk was madly in love with a bear. But the bear, barely noticed the skunk … that is until the skunk saved the bear from hunters and the forest’s most unlikely friendship blossomed.

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08:18

"Money Trees: An African-American Story" by Jane...

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/02/04

John Michael was poor, but his friend William was dirt poor and that’s what decided John Michael to give William all the money he got from selling pecans. He would have loved to buy some sports equipment. but it was more important for William to get a bicycle so that he could get a delivery job and help support his family.

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26:19

"The Princess Who Stood on Her Own Two Feet" by...

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2025/01/07

A long time ago, in a kingdom by the sea, there was a Princess as tall and bright as a sunflower, but she refused to wither in the shadow of her betrothed Prince and found greater pleasure in her beloved talking dog.

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13:39

"Castles in the Air" by Stephen Krensky

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2024/11/13

When a witch goes before the king to ask for the road in front of her house to be repaired, she is told by the king’s chief advisor that the king could build castles in the air if he wanted to, rather than talk to her. This gives the witch a clever idea and pretty soon the king is looking down on his kingdom from his castle in the clouds

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08:49

"Ghost Walk" by Mark A. Garland

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2024/10/18

Arin and her Mom go to the cemetery to tell Arin’s Dad that it’s okay, that they love him and don’t blame him for what happened in the church the night they surprised two burglars. A softly told tale of a ghostly encounter in a graveyard with a nice twist at the end.

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12:44

"Miz Mephitis" by Robert D. Culp

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2024/09/29

When Rooster ducks into the barn to get out of the afternoon rain storm he is surprised to have his sneeze answered by a polite “God bless you, young man.” When he realizes it is Miz Mephitis, the skunk, he backs away just a far as he can. But his fear is replaced by curiosity when a right friendly discussion ensues and Rooster learns there is a lot more to skunks than he had imagined.

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20:08

"The Booted Cat: or Puss in Boots." Newly translated...

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2024/08/22

A very literary and delightful modern translation/adaptation of one of Charles Perrault’s most famous fairy tails wherein the youngest son inherits nothing of value except the family cat. But the cat, who is very fond or his young master, proves to be well more that just a cat. Bebooted and behatted, the clever feline finds his master both a kingdom and a wife. For all who love happily ever afters – and cats.

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09:55

"The Imaginary Dragon" by Terry Jones

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2024/07/12

A dragon, fearing that he doesn’t exist, shares his concern with his friends the griffin, the unicorn and the sphinx. They can offer little to ease his worries but in the end, like Rousseau, he decides, someone imagines, therefore, I am.

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35:16

"Cinders" by Katherine Gibson

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2024/06/11

A “what if” story about one of Cinderella’s coachmen who stays a man rather than regaining his mouse form at the stroke of midnight. Dazed and confused, he finds himself at the gates of a castle and discovers that, upon being given lowly work in the King’s stables, he has a knack as a horse whisperer.

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05:30

"The Trouble with Trouble; a Tale from the American...

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2024/05/14

The trouble with Trouble was he talked too much, even old skunk told him so. But when Trouble tried to tell everyone old skunk spoke to him, no one ever believed him again.

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16:24

"Come Again in Spring" by Richard Kennedy

Read Me a Story, Ink ·

2024/04/22

When death comes for Old Hark, the old man tells him to come again in the spring so he can feed his birds for one more winter. After some argument, Death offers to give him one more winter if he can answer three questions.

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